Comment by 0xbadcafebee
3 days ago
I wish more people would filter their comments through AI. It has so many benefits. If you're being emotional, it can detect that and rewrite your comment to be less confrontational and more constructive. If you're positing a position out of ignorance or as an armchair expert, it can verify your claims before posting. Most of the mod's problems would be solved if every comment were filtered through the HN guidelines before posting.
AI is a tool. You can use it constructively, like Grammarly, or spellcheck. You don't need to be afraid of it.
> If you're being emotional, it can detect that and rewrite your comment to be less confrontational and more constructive
Are you learning something in the process? does ti have your full emotional context, beside the full conversation context? There are probably many bade side-effects if people would actually start doing what you mention at scale.
One thing is computer code, which is an intermediate product to an end (instruct the computer what it needs to do) and another is YOUR direct output to some other human being, which is the end game in human-to-human communication.
> If you're being emotional, it can...
It can't. It will rewrite anything you give it.
> it can verify your claims before posting
It can't.
> You don't need to be afraid of it
Nobody is afraid of it. It's annoying. General population cannot be trusted to use it in whatever idealistic way you are imagining.